discourage needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 776 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
discourage is the highest-scoring word from discourage, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 776 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in discourage — and it is discourage itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in discourage. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cordages, disgrace, scourged, and scrouged, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in discourage produces 47 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with courage. For points, the strongest plays are cadgers, codgers, cordage, and ergodic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling discourage turns up 126 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, argued, argues, caused, cigars, course, and cruise. For points, the strongest plays are cadger, cadges, codger, geodic, and graced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 228 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in discourage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cages, cards, cared, cares, cause, cigar, and codes. For points, the strongest plays are cadge and caged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in discourage produces 225 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, aged, ages, aids, airs, cage, and card. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, cads, cage, caid, card, cedi, cigs, coda, code, cods, coed, cogs, cord, crag, cred, crud, cuds, cued, curd, dace, deco, dice, disc, docs, duce, duci, guac, iced, odic, scad, scag, and scud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling discourage turns up 115 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, ago, aid, air, are, and car. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cig, cod, cog, cud, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in discourage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, do, go, id, is, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, do, ed, gi, go, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in discourage plus one additional letter.
discourage is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for discourage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
discourage is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing discourage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is discourage, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from discourage earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in discourage produce 776 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 9 eight-letter words, 47 seven-letter words, 126 six-letter words, 228 five-letter words, 225 four-letter words, 115 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.